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حَالِبٌ حالب A milker; (S, K;) as also ↓ حَلُوبٌ ; (K;) but the latter has an intensive signification: (TA:) pl. حَلَبَةٌ. (S, A.) You say, هُمْ حَلَبَةُ الإِِبِلِ [They are the milkers of the camels]. (A.) And شّتَّى تَؤُوبُ الحَلَبَهْ [Separately the milkers return]: (S, A:) for when they assemble to milk their camels, each occupies himself with milking his own, and then they return, one after another; (S, TA;) or they water them together, and return separately to their abodes, where each one milks: (TA:) a prov., (S, A, TA,) relating to the manners of men in assembling and separating: (TA:) you should not say الحَلَمَهْ. (S.) IKtt gives it differently, thus: حَتَّى تَؤُوبَ الحَلَبَهْ [Until the milkers return]: but the former reading is that commonly known. (IB, TA.) لَيْسَ لَهَا رَاعٍ وَلٰكِنَّ حَلَبَةٌ [They (i. e. camels) have not a pastor, but milkers] is another prov., applied to a man who asks thine aid, and whom thou aidest, but on whose part there is no aid. (TA. [That is, You ask aid of one to whom you render no aid. See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 427.]) ― -b2- [Hence,] الحَالِبَانِ (tropical:) [The two spermatic ducts;] two veins, or ducts, which supply the penis with [the spermatic] fluid; whence the phrase, دَرَّ حَالِبَاهُ, meaning (tropical:) his penis became erect: (A, TA:) (assumed tropical:) two veins, or ducts, in the kidneys: (Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or (assumed tropical:) two veins, or ducts, (S, TA,) of a green colour, (TA,) on either side of the navel: (S, TA:) accord. to some, (assumed tropical:) two veins, or ducts, within the two horns. (TA. [But I think that, in this instance, القرنين is a mistranscription for العرْنِين, meaning the nose: see what follows.]) حَوَالِبُ [is the pl., and] signifies (tropical:) The sources [whence flows the milk] of the udder: (A, TA:) and (tropical:) the sources whence flow the tears of the eye: (A, K:) and (tropical:) the sources of a spring, (A,) or of a well: (K:) and حَوَالِبُ الأَسْهَرَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) the veins, or dusts, that excern the mucus from the nose, and the spermatic fluid from the penis. (AA, T. [But see art. سهر.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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